"An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, a...

"In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northern Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punish...

An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, an...

In 1919, Niska, an old Cree medicine woman, goes to retrieve soldier Xavier Bird, who arrives back without a leg, addicted to morphine, and near death. Niska paddles Xavier home while telling him her life story, and in r...

Riel, regarded by some as a hero and visionary, by others as a madman and misguided religious zealot, fought for the rights of the Métis people and helped establish the province of Manitoba before escaping to the United...

A collection of short stories set in the native reserves in Northern Ontario. The characters include a young woman who falls in love with a wolf, a boy who enters the pro-wrestling ring and takes on the defending champio...

Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now in a coma; his niece Annie, returned from her journey, sits beside his bed. Their secrets are revealed - the tragic betrayal that cost Will his family, Annie's desperate sear...

Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now in a coma; his niece Annie, returned from her journey, sits beside his bed. Their secrets are revealed - the tragic betrayal that cost Will his family, Annie's desperate sear...

Maintaining a bedside vigil for her comatose uncle, Annie Bird remembers a painful search for her missing sister, while her Uncle Will, a legendary Cree bush pilot, ruminates on a tragic betrayal that cost him his family...

It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and add...

Riel, regarded by some as a hero and visionary, by others as a madman and misguided religious zealot, fought for the rights of the Métis people and helped establish the province of Manitoba before escaping to the Unite...